On Mar 18, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Andy wrote: > My understanding is that too many facet values will decrease performance > > How many is too many? Are there any rules of thumb for this? > > 2 related questions: > > - I expect a facet field to have many values (values are user generated), any > thing I can do to minimize the performance impact? > > - Any way to tell Solr to just at the top N values, kinda like the LIMIT > clause in SQL? > > Thanks
Not sure on the "how many is too many" question but I wouldn't be concerned; Solr does faceting very well with highly optimized code. The latter question -- absolutely. Standard stuff. Check out the wiki or buy my book. ~ David Smiley Author: http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/
